7 Tips for Living with Roommates | How to Live with Roommates

I am going to share 7 tips with you on living with roommates and how to be a better roommate! Living with roommates can be extremely frustrating and challenging but these tips will help you be a better roommate. Whether you are moving out for the first time or just need college roommate advice, living with roommates can actually be fun if you learn how to communicate and set up the right expectations!

I hope you enjoy the video! I would love to hear in the comments down below what your number one non-negotiable is when living with roommates!

Much love,

Paige

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[khristinasmith]

Number one non-negotiable: don't leave overnight guests unattended. I work from home and I find it so distracting knowing that a stranger is just hanging about next door.

[mobiusstripper]

Moving in with my best friend of 15 years completely destroyed our friendship. Haven't spoken to her in almost 10 years now. 😐 Think twice before moving in with close friends.

[alaez.]

The non negotiable thing for me is respect

[AFFTFOMSICHTS]

I will go broke before I ever have room mates again. The main issue i notice with room mates is different levels of cleanliness and chores. Some ppl are OCD clean and others don’t care. I always cleaned up after myself but my room mate was annoyed with me and other one that we didn’t clean base boards or do deep cleans on the common areas on a weekly basis.
The issues I had was boyfriends who were there more than I was (including when their gf wasn’t even home) showering there, cooking, watching tv all day then when the utility bills come wanted to split it equally 3 ways.
These conversations are vital to have before living with ppl.

[_Crazyslots]

The issue I had with my roommate is he leaves no personal boundary. I like to leave my door open, but he would literally walked in every 20 mins to talk or something. When I leave my door closed, he would knock and then walk in even I said I was doing other things. It’s really getting frustrating for me cuz there are moments that I just don’t want to talk or just want to leave myself alone after a whole day of school.

[jasmineviolet]

I couldn't live with a messy roommate or a mean one

[sarahs]

*don't beat yourself up* thank youuuu. omg. I'm about to move in with roommates for the first time and I am so scared. But I remember that if it doesn't work out that I can simply learn and move on :) ahh thanks

[xt]

verry informative. i feel like i was in a therapy session. thank you

[mari]

4:19 this is advice I've been needing my whole life. At work, with friends, everywhere. Sounds like a great way to address a problem, but I never thought of it. Thank you!

[denkies_]

I’ve just been given an opportunity to move in with a friend and I am now proceeding to watch so many of these videos, thank you so much!

[Aalayahhh]

My very best roommates have been my close friends. Whenever I hear people say that living with friends ruined their friendship, I think that their friendship issues were just brought to light by spending more time together. Not trying to invalidate anyone’s experience, but if you have a healthy communication with your friends, living together can be so awesome !

[jelly-kloy]

Living with (a) roommate(s) is freaking frustrating indeed. We are the complete opposite and what I consider basics things to do and not to do when living with others (cleaning up, not being noisy at night from at least midnight to 6 AM...) is not to my roommate. I am holding a lot in because there are so many things not right but not worthy to talk about but whenever I try to say something immediately it is taken the wrong way and start to yell. Really WTF !!! Doing a list is not even possible and so is communication. Some people are simply not meant to live with others. My roommate is constantly having a hard time so when is the right timing, I never know. SOOo tired but thankfully I am moving out soon.

[heathermccall]

Pretty good points for most people. I dislike it a lot when I'm the only one taking trash out. And I don't mind if there are less than 15 dishes in the sink for 24 hours or less.

[franceskoz]

I was clear when I moved in that a weekly cleaning schedule was important to me and they said that was fine and they already had one, but when I got there they basically didn't do any real cleaning (they had a schedule that they didn't follow, and they only clean up acute messes/spills). When I tried to talk about it one of them got angry and said she can't clean because she's working full time (like all of us, basically). I had a calm conversation with her where she ended up saying she did want things clean-ish but that she couldn't do it as often as I did. However, six weeks later she hasn't done anything at all, and now I'm worried about asking her about it because she's so aggressive. (I have three roommates: one is her good friend and also doesn't clean, but the third is good.) I can't move out for financial and housing availability reasons. Any tips?

[ThuggyMacho]

I'm moving in with my best friend next year and needed to hear tips that we can apply and this was very helpful. Thank you!

[viponkasongo]

I just bought my condo and I was hesitating to someone who asked me to be my roommate; I didn’t know where to start but after watching your videos I think I will figure it out how to make things work for us. Thank you for your advising and you’re very skilled with on explanation

[yusahara]

Honestly this advice can be extended to how to properly communicate your needs to other people!!!

[travisnunya]

Yesss thank you. This is so helpful. I like the bit about a common place is a happy place. I try my best to be in a decent mood when I get back to my aparemt

[romeojuliet]

I did the roomate thing at 19 it was cool but u gotta live by the owners rules. As an adult now i dont wanna do it, i domt even like my lady to stay past 2 days before i need my alone time. Speaking of that i like her to walk around in skimpy stuff n u cant do that with a roomie. I also like the quietness of coming home and not hearing anyone. Idk i guess everyone is different, i know people who cant handle being alone. I imagine the worst is having to be social or act social when u come across ur roomie in the kitchen or something but you're not in a talkative mood or having to deal with them being loud etc...

[destroyraiden]

Just because your setting the expectations doesn't mean they're going to follow it. Now in this case your hiring a room mate so this makes sense yet if your family or whatever and you've down graded to room mate then they may not follow what you want they're not under an obligation to follow your rules if you're not hiring them to be that room mate.